1 A. D. 1802. BIRTH OF KHLRUK SINGH. 53
2 the confederacy most active in hostility to Runjeet
3 Singh. After a few months of debate however, and
4 some fruitless skirmishes, finding the young chief well
5 prepared, their army broke up, and the city was left ever
6 after in Runjeet Singh's uninterrupted possession.
7 The Moosulmans of Kasoor, a considerable town, stated
8 to be about 25 kos S. E. of Labor, incurred the just
9 resentment of Runjeet Singh, as well by the part
10 their chief had taken in this confederacy, as by depreda-
11 tions since committed by them up to the gates of the city.
12 His next enterprize was against their possessions, and in
13 1801-2 NiJUM-ooD-DEEN was compelled to submit to
14 terms, binding himself to furnish a quota of troops under
15 his brother KooTUB-ooD-DEEN, and to become a feuda-
16 tory of Runjeet Singh. In the same year the young
17 I chief, having proceeded to bathe in the sacred reservoir
18 of Gooroo Ram-Das at Tarun-Turun, met there Sirdar
19 FuTEH Singh, of the Aloowala Misul, and contracting
20 a friendship with him, made an exchange of turbands.
21 The year 1802 was marked by the birth* of Khuruk
22 Singh, the present heir-apparent of Maha Raja Run-
23 jeet Singh: his mother was Raj-Koonwur, daugh-
24 ter of Khujan Singh of Nukee. In the same year, the
25 fort of Cheniot held by JuSA SiNGH, son of theBhungee
26 chief, KuRUM Singh Dooloo, was besieged, and,
27 after a short resistance, taken by Runjeet Singh, who
28 made to the expelled chief a trifling allowance for main-
29 tenance.
30 * Captain Wade places this event after the decease of Dcl Singh, and
31 peudiug measures to occupy his Jageer and fort of Aleepoor, which,
32 according to Captain MirMiAV, would make it in 1804. The year 1802, is,
33 however, assigned as the date by both Ollicers.